“Of books I
sing…”

"Of books
I sing" is
a column showcasing excerpts from “volumes of forgotten lore.” Rescued
from library sales, thrift store shelves and recycling dumpsters,
if it’s amusing, poignant or illustrates the
somewhat overblown and colorful prose of yesteryear, it can
find a place here. Think of it as a home for unwed paragraphs or a
museum of resuscitated sentences.

“Of books I sing,
but not of those
Which any book collector knows,
The priceless, rare editions, not,
But volumes which the world forgot...”

- Frank
Sherman in Century Magazine, 1889
Our thanks to sacklunch.net for bringing Frank Sherman’s verse to
light after 120 years.

An
Introduction of Two Persons3-9-09
From The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch
Boy Fifty Years After
“Make the world a bit more beautiful and better because you have
been in it.”